riSHES. — MCCULLOCH. 97 



REPORT ON THE FISHES. 



Part 3. 



By the courtesy of the Comptroller General of Customs, 

 Mr. S.Mills, I was enabled to be on board the "Endeavour" 

 during one of her cruises between 12th March and 6th April, 

 1914. Investigations were carried out on the bank lying to 

 the eastward of Tasmania, and I saw the tYa,\v\ worked at 

 various depths between sixty and two hundred fathoms, at 

 many localities between Babel Island on the north and Piedra 

 Blanca Island on the extreme south. Large catches of fish 

 and invertebrates of many kinds were made, and valuable 

 collections preserved, but a highly instructive item lies in 

 the fact that only two fishes were secured of which no speci- 

 mens had been previously sent to Sydney from the " En- 

 deavour." This leads us to the belief that the Babel Island 

 bank has been very thoroughly investigated by the Director 

 of Fisheries, the late Mr. H. C. Dannevig, whose sharp eye 

 rarely overlooked anything unknown to him. Though a 

 great number of specimens still remain to be identified, 

 described and figured, we may perhaps be justified in sup- 

 posing that on completion of the work, we will have a very 

 fair idea of the fish-fauna of this area between the depths of 

 sixty and one hundred and fifty fathoms. 



Family SQUALID^. 



Genus Centrophorus, Muller & Henle. 



Centrophorus scalpratus, sp. nov. 



(Plate xiii., fig. 2-7.) 



Head depressed ; snout short and broad, somewhat 

 sharpty rounded. Nostrils in the anterior two-fifths of the 

 snout, the space separating them a little less than their 

 distance from its tip. Anterior nasal flap with two lobes 

 near the outer edge, the inner one smaller than the other ; 

 posterior margin of each nostril with a narrow skinny border, 

 and a large rounded extero-internal prominence. Mouth 

 below the hinder half of the eye, its width much greater than 

 its distance from the nostrils ; it is very slightly arched, 

 with a deep groove and short labial folds at each angle. The 

 oblique lateral groove extends backwards to behind the level 

 of the spiracle, and its length is equal to about two-thirds 

 the width of the mouth. 



